Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 3 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 4 | How easy it had all seemed then — how exciting ! |
| 5 | Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels . |
| 6 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 7 | Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged . |
| 8 | A Muslim officer who recently quit the Yugoslav army claimed yesterday it had massively armed Serbian militiamen in Bosnia and co-ordinated plans to partition the republic along ethnic lines . |
| 9 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 10 | He had ordered the William Ashbless poetry over a month ago , and now it had finally arrived . |
| 11 | Now it had all left her . |
| 12 | And now it had all come to nothing . |
| 13 | She had kept her secret for two weeks — but today it had somehow slipped out . |
| 14 | How well it had all worked out ! |
| 15 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 16 | Not that she believed his mother was a tramp , but whatever had happened all those years ago it had obviously involved her grandfather — why else would he give her money when the child so obviously could n't have been his ? |
| 17 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 18 | And from then on it had never happened . |
| 19 | Dot thought how it had probably felt like this , jolting yet stately . |
| 20 | Whilst much had changed , particularly since John Shaw 's retirement , the visit clearly brought back poignant memories of how it had all begun . |
| 21 | I could not understand how it had all happened so quickly . |
| 22 | All attention could now be given to negotiation and to preparing for war rather than continuing the sterile debate on how it had all come about . |
| 23 | Juliet explained how it had all started , then she found she was telling her about Mrs Maybury and Celia . |
| 24 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 25 | Then maybe it had just happened . |
| 26 | Maybe it had never stopped , Maggie was n't at all sure . |
| 27 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 28 | And then it had only ended after he had decided to go back to his wife . |
| 29 | If Labour is serious about challenging the dominant-party state , then it had better get serious about democracy now . ’ |
| 30 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |